2 January 2019 - ProQR Therapeutics today announced that it received fast track designation from the FDA for QR-421a.
QR-421a is a first-in-class investigational RNA-based oligonucleotide designed to address the underlying cause of the vision loss associated with Usher syndrome type 2 and non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa due to mutations in exon 13 of the USH2A gene.